Service Details
Name:
 MORRISON
Given Name:
 ROBERT WALTER
Initials:
 R W
Service No:
 4147
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 1st Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "D" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1916-07-18
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Date of Birth:
 1892-11-11
Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, shot through the throat at Delville Wood in an attack made by himself and the seven other survivors of his platoon
Additional
Information:
Son of Robert Brown Morrison and Ruth Morrison, of Ireland. Educated at Royal School Dungannon between 1905 and 1907. Walter returned to South Africa, where he was in business in Cape Town. Commemoration stone in Cape Town (Maitland) Cemetery
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
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Grave Reference:
 Plot 1. Row E. Grave 43.

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